Use-wear Analysis, Something Unknown in the Prehistory Researchs

• Main Author: Francisco José Vicente Santos
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2010-03-01
• Series: El Futuro del Pasado
• Subjects: Útiles; traceología; análisis lítico; marcas de uso; residuos; función
• Online Access: http://www.elfuturodelpasado.com/ojs/index.php/FdP/article/view/9

<p>The interest generated by the Paleolithic retouched stone tools is a distant event and dissections performed to determine its function are a little early. The Speculations about their function were obtained bymorphological variation, by ethnological data or stories and so on etc. However, in 1957 since Semenov Publication "Prehistoric Tecnology" this form to find out their funcionality get old and the most important would be the new one. This Semenov new line of investigation will be go on with the Scientist: L. H. Keeley, G. H. Odell, M. E. Masur-Franchomme, H. Plisson, P. C. Anderson Gerfaud, Korokoba C., or the Spanish Gutierrez, I. Clemente, J. J. Ibáñez, J. E. González, J. F. Gibaja, I. Martín, R. Domingo, C. Mazo, M. Calvo and P. Jardón. It´s based in test of diferents objects use-wear produted in the Stone´s tools. With them, we can answer questions like How, With what material and Why they have been used. This is the base of Traceology and analysis functional. The Text purpose is show this investigation line, his method and his results.</p>